Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831, British
Title:
The Colosseum, Rome
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/2 x 32 inches (52.1 x 81.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "J. Smith 1802"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6287
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
ruins | trees | aqueduct | coliseum | people | clouds | architectural subject | bushes
Associated Places:
Colosseum | Italy | Rome
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)

Sites and Sensibilities - Views of Rome 1500-1992 (Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1992-09-01 - 1992-11-08)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)

Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 147-148, no. III.11, pl. 122, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, Scene and Sensibility, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , April 29, 1983, p. 438, TLS Historical Archive

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 23, 24, 138, no. 158, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8253